At the end of September, the final conference was held as part of the large international initiative COVID-19 BUSINESS CLINICS in Dnipro. This largest project was carried out on the basis of the Chamber of Commerce and was funded by the European Union and the German government. Our director B.R. Babenko took an active part in trainings held within the framework of the project, and of course, could not miss this conference.

European packaging manufacturers continue to announce sustainable and recyclable solutions. This time, AR Packaging announced its development, which introduced its barrier trays for packaging ready meals and refrigerated food in modified atmosphere, made of cardboard, thereby continuing the theme of the widespread use of paper in packaging.

The FachPack 2021 exhibition, which is now taking place in Germany, has already managed to please with interesting innovations. And in general, it confirmed that in the near future more and more paper will be in demand for creating packaging. So, two companies presented very interesting developments of paper packaging at the same time.

On September 14-16, 2021 in Kiev, after a significant break due to Covid, the All-Ukrainian Forum of Food Technologies was finally held, which united the international exhibition of equipment and technologies for the food and processing industry INPRODMASH and the international exhibition of the packaging industry UPAKOVKA. Rather high level of attendance of exhibitions has once again confirmed the need for their holding.

North American Phillips Distilling Company has recently launched two vodka brands with unique, innovative packaging designs. In both cases, at first glance, inexpressive label, under certain conditions, blooms with bright colors.

St. Johns Packaging together with SABIC and Allied Bakeries announced the successful commercial launch of the world's first bread packaging bag made of a high percentage of recycled plastic. Bread in similar bags went on sale in UK supermarkets.

The global fight against plastic in the environment and with its harmful effects leads to the fact that a huge number of enterprises are trying to switch to the use of recycled plastic in their packaging, i.e. change to a closed cycle of the economy. And some of them succeed very successfully.